Troy Kastigar

Troy Kastigar (1981-2009) was an American member of the al-Shabaab terrorist group during the Somali Civil War.

Biography
Troy Kastigar was born in 1981 in New Hope, Minnesota, the son of a father of Slovenian descent and a mother of Native American heritage. He was raised by his single mother, and he took karate lessons in Golden Valley, earning a black belt. Kastigar converted to Islam after finishing high school, and he often played basketball at a local community center with Douglas McCain and some Somalis. He adopted the Muslim name "Abdirahman", and he was recruited into the al-Shabaab terrorist group along with several other Twin Cities people, leaving Minneapolis in November 2008. In 2009, he was killed fighting against the Somali National Army in the Somali Civil War, the sixth person from Minnesota and the first US citizen to die while fighting for al-Shabaab.